Sinead O'Connor
Sinead O'Connor
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O’Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra. O’Connor achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a new arrangement of Prince’s song "Nothing Compares 2 U"...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth8 December 1966
CityGlenageary, Ireland
CountryIreland
emotion spirit holy
When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.
needs
God is something that needs rescuing from religion.
graves feels
To say what you feel is to dig your own grave.
sea trying pure
You must not try to be too pure, you must fly closer to the sea.
order proud causes
I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.
hate thinking people
Forgiveness is the most important thing. We all have to forgive what was done to us - the Irish people have to forgive. The African people. The Jewish people. We all have to forgive and understand the only way to stop the cycle of hate and abuse is not to allow yourself to get caught in it.
baby rocks lessons
Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.
creative washing-dishes process
My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.
artistic-life my-boyfriend would-be
I have always had a good functioning in my artistic life, but I had problems mostly in my private life, I got very angry with my boyfriends and stuff...I would probably have good reasons to be angry but the volume would be too high, just getting to some level of wounding that perhaps was not appropriate to the actual offence committed.
honesty wine mind
When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.
beautiful nice kids
My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.
thinking helping psychiatrist
I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.
desire sexuality objects-of-desire
Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.
song believe suffering
I listen to, like, funky Chicago blues. I love blues, but I love the funky, happy blues. There's a song about pretty much everything, including kidney stones, believe it or not. So there's something there for whatever you happen to be suffering, you know?